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We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.1.0. This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and several improvements.
Here are the highlights:
Default value for Disregard case when creating any type of rule is now Yes
Accept more than one URL in sitemaps for the same content id. Allows use manual override to include several pages for the same canonical content
Do not URL-encode URL reserved characters when adding them to sitemaps, as they are sometimes used as is in URLs
Now defaulting to not checking Joomla com_redirect before triggering a 404 on Joomla 3, as this prevents error pages to operate. Can use corresponding filter to enable back if needed.
Aliases now also operates in Debug mode or if the site is offline.
Background cron trigger pixel image URL changed to avoid collisions with actual words that may trigger security systems
Better cleanup of com_tags non-sef URLs when creating a page content id for canonical identification
"Others" status selector does not work on Recorded Errors page
Aliases and redirects are not executed on Joomla 5 when they concern non-existing URLs
4SEO does not allow selecting Structured data images when location of the images media folder has been changed from the default
Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEF version 2.1.0. This is a maintenance release with several improvements and bug fixes.
Here are the highlights:
Tags component was hardcoded to use Joomla SEF URL, now changed to allow 3rd-party to write their own.
Changed default time out for communication with server from 10 to 20 seconds
Language switcher uses same language code for all languages
Some "4SEF: no option value set in URI" errors are still logged, building up large log files
Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4Podcast version 2.0.1. This is a maintenance release with a couple of small changes for Apple devices users.
Here are the highlights:
Disable frequency chart visualizer on Safari 15 and older, audio plays but not sound is heard
Default audio vizualizer is now Simple 3 lines animation instead of live frequency chart. All vizualisation options still available in the podcast settings
Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.
We're pleased to announce the release of 4SEO version 5.0.0. This is a feature release that includes Joomla 5 compatibility.
Here are the highlights:
Minor tweaks for Joomla 5 compatibility
Added CCBot to "Exclude common AI bots" and prevent the CommonCrawl crawler to use your site data to train their model
Added Google-Extended to "Exclude common AI bots", to prevent Google Bard and VertexAI bots to use your site data to train their model
Added ability to add translation for new languages, or override existing translations, by dropping a json file in a subdirectory of /libraries/weeblr
If Joomla Debug system is enabled, 4SEO won't display user-configured error pages anymore
Accomodate pages where some custom javascript code has been added that includes invalid html tags in text strings, thus breaking cron or performance measurements pixels injection
When customizing a URL in 4SEF, if the custom URL is an existing one, the metadata in 4SEO was lost
Possible fatal error when using a custom field to configure a structured data date (publication, modification, etc) and a custom date format is in use through modifying DATE_FORMAT_LC* Joomla language strings
Multipages articles are not properly canonicalized, based on whether the Show All option is enabled or not
Inserting a local image into an error page through the editor does not show either in the admin or on the frontend
Canonical pages that have been excluded from sitemap by a rule or otherwise can sometimes be put back in the sitemap
Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.